Chillingworth: a sinful man

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From the beginning of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, Roger

Chillingworth is a man that is capable of love, and slowly emerges into a man that is

capable of evil. Chillingworth's first initial sin is marrying Hester who was a

generation younger than him. His second sin is betraying Minister Dimmesdale. In this

case of Roger Chillingworth, two sins control his destiny.

Chillingworth's first sin causes Hester to be unhappy. Her unhappiness was due

to the mismatched matrimony. Chillingworth then says: "I ask not wherefore, no how,

thou hast fallen into the pit, or say, rather, thou hast ascended to the pedestal of infamy

on which I found thee. The reason is not far to seek. It was my folly, and thy weakness"

(78). He is trying to say that he does not blame her for committing the sins. He blames

himself because he never gave her affection and he was the one that caused her to

commit adultery. I think it was Hester's fault for committing her sin, because she is

responsible for her own actions. Chillingworth represses his inborn emotional respons

in a dark cavern."(122) Meaning that, he wants to go deep into the very core of

wants to delve "deep into his patients bosom, delving among his principles, prying into

himself. He doesn't gain back his control until after he makes his confession to the

upon." (62) Which Hester is trying to say that everytime someone makes a mockery of

through physiological stress. Chillingworth commits his second sin; which Hawthorne

who is only capable of revenge. He commits two sins; the result of his first sin leads to

her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample

"For Hester Prynne's sake, then, and no less for the poor child's sake, let us leave them

a new "special interest" in Dimmesdale and becomes his "leech" (doctor). The "leech"

Approximate Word count = 745
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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